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OMEGAMON/IMS REQUIRES API MONITORING

IMS, when combined with z/OS Connect, has the capability to support IMS trxs calling an API. The API request goes thru z/OS Connect to where ever the API is to execute. In the meantime the IMS trx goes into a wait, waiting for the API response. Om...
almost 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 5 Future consideration

Add Choice of CodePage

When we go through the Personalize my Workspace wizard, a new page Set The Codepage would be really helpful rather than having to remember to change it later.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

TWS : Add group definition in Layout fields list

Layout definition : Extend the selection to fields not belonging to the CP3P record but only to CP3C, such ad the Group Definition.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

PL/1 Unit Tests

We want to unit test PL/1 moduls (also internal procedures). This would be possible by adding additional code to a module with a generator I wrote. The problem by doing this is that the source code tested would be not the same than the one deploye...
about 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Add Member name information

IBM Application Discovery v5.0.4.2 onward Product is used for e.g. cross referencing usage of Programs and JCLs etc. to perform in depth analysis for change impact or in case of Operational issues. We would like to see a feature to select programs...
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Remove the requirement of Db2 SYSADM authority to access the IZPCA panels to perform specific functions.

DB2 SYSADM is the highest level of administrative authority at a DB2 subsystem level. Users with SYSADM authority can run some utilities and issue some database and database manager commands within the instance. A user with SYSADM authority can gr...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Powershell Library for PCOMM

Social Security Administration is looking to improve some automated actions in conjunction with the PCOMM application. Powershell libraries would allow us to accomplish our tasks in a more reliable fashion than current practices.
about 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Propose an LTS Release for IMS

I would like to have the possibility to chose a long time support release for IMS (like MQ product). Today, one version is a 2 years version. It is often too short for a production environment. We spend too much time to migrate the software to a n...
about 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

PHASEIN Support for JAVA programs running under Liberty Profile

The versioning and alias processing options that are presently available for deploying new Liberty Profile JAVA bundles in CICS require changes to the pre-existing CICS RDO definitions, this is not something that is desired when promoting a new ve...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to perform actions in Aggregated Explorer Views

I am using the CICS Regions view in CICS Explorer for illustration but, to my knowledge, this applies to all Explorer aggregated views. With multiple CICS regions selected, performing a right click gives a selection list of actions that can be per...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

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